Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

It was a close call, with Hongxia falling down but she was only covered in dust and not injured.

Several people looked in the direction where the enemy was attacking, but they did not find the imagined cave entrance. There was only an intact stone wall. If it were not for the rubble on the ground, Shizi would have thought that it was all an illusion.

"This monster didn't drop anything." Yili searched in the ashes several times but didn't find anything special.

"By the way, do you think this place is weird? We've been walking for so long, but we haven't seen any forks in the road..." The more Shi Zi thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong.

They had never seen such an environment before, such a situation. Several people fell into silence. Finally, Kita was the first to speak, his voice obviously trembling: "Do you want to continue?"

"...Continue." Although there was an uncontrollable tremor in her voice, Hong Xia still made the decision.

The road became steeper and steeper. In order to ease the tense atmosphere, Hongxia started to find topics to chat. With Hongxia's efforts, the group felt a little more relaxed. However, the speed was still slowed down a lot, because they no longer dared to walk by holding on to the wall, so they had to be careful with their feet and move slowly in the middle of the road.

"It's getting steeper, be careful." Hong Xia reminded.

Liang, who was standing in the front, suddenly stopped.

"what happened?"

"There's a vertical shaft ahead, and there's a large space underneath the shaft. I can't figure out how big it is, but if you go down there, you definitely won't be able to come out."

Everyone was a little disappointed. After running for so long and finding nothing, they couldn't go on?

"Let's go and take a look first." Shizi didn't want to give up and groped forward again.

The slope was already very steep, and they had to hold on to the stone wall again. Shizi walked in front, constantly creating stairs for several people to walk on. The space became narrower and narrower, and the width gradually became only wide enough for one person to walk on.

"Is this the place?" Several people stopped and Shizi saw that there was no road ahead, only the ground that suddenly turned vertically downward.

"See, I'll tell you." Liang's head popped out from Shizi's left shoulder.

"Ah!" Liang was too close, and his breath blew on Shizi's ears. She instinctively shrank to the side, but bumped into Hongxia's head who was approaching. "I'm sorry... why did you get so close?"

"If you put your bags down, two people can squeeze in." Hong Xia answered while shining a light into the shaft below. It was bottomless.

This was a tough situation for Shizi. Her head was neither left nor right, and if she moved forward she would probably fall.

Yili stood at the back, at a loss: "Um, um, too close..."

"What? Oh, we are indeed standing too close to the wellhead. Let's step back a little. It's a bit dangerous." Hong Xia waved back, indicating to step back a little.

Kita was standing at the back and looked back first. When he saw the light of the fire, he immediately found something wrong: the steps above were gradually disappearing!

"Student Wu, did you make the stairs disappear?"

"What?" As the two people beside her retreated, Shizi just breathed a sigh of relief, but her heart was hanging again because of this sentence. She looked back: when she had no idea, the stone steps she built were melting rapidly and returning to the original ground! And this trend has spread to their feet! On this slope, if they lose the steps, they can only roll into the well!

"Hurry up and run!" She yelled, pushing the people in front of her to run upwards. Kita rushed to the front and quickly threw down her backpack, wanting to throw it away, but when she saw Ichiri and others behind her, she obediently held the bag in her hands.

Shizi tried to regenerate the stone steps, but failed. Kita had already climbed to the place where the stone steps disappeared. It was slightly wider, so Kita could put down her backpack, grab the stone wall with both hands, and climb up. However, her palms immediately burst into flames, burning the stone wall.

"What's wrong?" Hong Xia asked anxiously.

"This stone wall is oozing a slippery liquid. I can't hold on to it at all! I can't dry it out! There's some liquid on the ground too!" Kita tried harder and harder, but it didn't seem to be working well.

"I can't control this liquid either..." Yili also failed.

At this moment, everyone heard the sound coming from deep in the earth. It was not caused by the monster, but the stone cave itself was shaking. Several people could not stand steadily and fell backwards, pushing each other and rolling into the big well behind them.

"Gulp gurgle gurgle gurgle--" The human ball bumped against the stone wall, but he didn't feel any pain, just dizziness.

"Wow!" A human ball fell from the top of the cave and split into five people.

There was only the sound of wind in her ears. Shizi opened her eyes with difficulty, but the strong wind forced her to squint. They were flying in the air.

"Bang-bang-bang-bang-" Shizi felt himself fall onto an air cushion. He opened his eyes and found that it was Liang who kept plucking the strings, creating a layer of sound wall floating in the air as an air cushion. The sound wall dissipated in an instant, and the next one immediately filled it up. Several people fell down little by little. Hongxia hurriedly replenished the starlight for Liang and provided support.

Shizi shook his head and tried to stand up, but immediately fell down in mid-air. It was impossible to stand upright at this time.

"Wow wow wow wow! What's that down there?" She heard Kita yelling. Shizi looked down quickly, her pupils suddenly shrinking.

There was no need for light. Shizi could see the "ocean" far below - because it was glowing - it looked like magma! Bubbling, glowing magma! Magma that she had only seen in games before! They were falling towards it step by step!

Shizi looked around and saw some cracks in the stone wall not far away. Lava was pouring out from there and flowing into the lava mouth below. It should be hot and stuffy here, but Shizi didn't feel any discomfort. Could it be that this wasn't lava? Shizi tried to throw out an iron bar, and it fell into the pool below and disappeared silently.

Regardless of whether it is magma or not, it is definitely not something that any mortal can touch!

Ichiri tried to roll up the torrent to roll the five people onto the rock wall, but the water quickly collapsed as soon as it touched the rock wall. Liang's bass sound became louder and louder, but Shizi could clearly feel that the power of the sound wall was declining! Hongxia's light was getting weaker and weaker.

This is weakening their abilities! We must find a way to escape as soon as possible!

Shizi suddenly had an idea and thought of the monster that seemed to have broken through the wall before. "Liang! Next, I will put a copper pillar, and we will hold it, and you smash the pillar against the stone wall! The thing that came in from the outside before means that there may be space outside!"

"...That's not the right place! If I let go, everyone will fall!"

"We can only try!" Shizi shouted louder than Bess.

"……OK!"

The next moment, a huge copper pillar appeared beside Shizi, with several iron chains extending from it. The five people each grabbed one and tied it to their bodies. Liangkong did not let go, but Hongxia helped. The copper pillar was slowly shrinking as soon as it appeared, but judging by the speed, it was still in time!

"It's coming!" Liang Dali swept it, exhausting all his strength and smashing the tail end of the copper pillar. The copper pillar dragged the five people and crashed into the stone wall!

At the moment the bronze pillar collided with the stone wall, Shizi lost consciousness due to the shock.

ps: There will be another update in the evening~ Please comment and recommend~

Chapter 11 Bio-Elevator

"……son……"

"...Shizi!" Just as the darkness fell in front of his eyes, the light returned. Shizi blinked, but he was already in a completely different place.

Shizi looked around and found herself lying on a hard rock. She tried to sit up, but she had no strength. The cold began to take over. She had not felt it before because of Kita's protection; now, her body began to shiver. She was hungry and thirsty, and her whole body was in pain. It was terrible.

Hong Xia quickly held her down: "Don't move, I'll heal you first." As the light passed, Shizi felt that she was quickly recovering to her original state. Soon, she opened her mouth and was able to speak.

"Is everything okay?" Shizi's first sentence was to inquire about the current situation.

"The other three haven't woken up yet, but they will soon. You are the first to wake up. Look." Shizi tilted her head and saw Kita lying next to her, and two more heads over there, and the copper pillar, which was inserted diagonally into the stone wall. They were still underground, but they had entered a larger space. With Hongxia's light, Shizi saw that although Kita was covered with dust, there was no visible external injury at all. Seeing that Shizi had almost recovered, Hongxia focused the starlight on the remaining three people. Her light was not weakened at all, and the previous strange influence had disappeared.

Shizi forced herself to sit up and saw that she was also covered in dirt. She did her best to conjure up a wash basin and a towel, and barely washed her face and hands. Now, it was so laborious to conjure up such simple objects. Seeing that Hongxia was also covered in dirt, Shizi hesitated slightly and raised the towel to wipe Kita's face.

"(Although I want to help her, it's really too embarrassing to wipe the face of someone who's awake! Anyway, wiping Kita's face is also helping her. Although it's embarrassing, at least she's not awake...)" Shizi folded the towel very thickly to prevent herself from feeling Kita's soft skin. Even so, she didn't dare to look down, and could only rub it hard by feeling.

Hongxia slowly treated the three people, but she felt that Xiduo's recovery speed was obviously slowing down. She turned her head and instantly wanted to complain: "Xiao Shizi, you are almost suffocating Xiao Xiduo to death..."

Shizi was shocked when he heard this and quickly raised his hand. Kita coughed violently a few times while in a coma and woke up earlier than others.

Kita opened her eyes and saw Shiko sitting next to her with a depressed look on her face. When Kita was able to sit up, Shiko brought her a basin of clean water and a towel without saying a word, and sat back in her original place, staring at the dark space. Kita turned her head and saw Hongxia also turned her head away, with a guilty look on her face.

"What happened?" Kita couldn't stand this atmosphere anymore and poked Shiko.

Shizi held it in for a long time, and his voice began to tear up: "Because I am useless and can't help Hongxia, I can only watch the door..."

"How could that be! Thanks to classmate Wu, we were able to escape!" Kita wanted to comfort Shiko, but he had no idea why she was autistic.

Hongxia couldn't help it any longer and pushed the basin towards Shizi: "You should come back and help wipe people's faces! You make me feel guilty for doing this!"

After a while, Liang woke up, but Yili still didn't respond.

"Yili is over there." Shizi, who had been looking outside, pointed to the sky. When everyone looked closely, a translucent ghost wearing a blue and yellow hair ornament floated over and entered Yili's body on the ground.

Yili blinked and woke up.

“……”Everyone decided not to mention this matter.

Everyone has almost recovered and is able to move. Hongxia's light flickered and was about to go out. She tried hard to maintain it, and a little candle-like light came out from her fingertips. When the light stabilized, Hongxia wiped the sweat off her face, and Kita took Shizi's towel and helped Hongxia wipe her face. Several people are now sitting on a small platform, surrounded by darkness on three sides. Several people leaned against the stone wall and discussed the next countermeasures. In order to see the current situation clearly, Hongxia tried to increase the light as much as possible, and Kita also used a few flames to assist, so that Shizi could see clearly where they were trapped.

"Here - inside the body of what creature?" Shizi shouted in surprise. Standing in the distance, she saw what the structure was that she had walked through before - a straight shaft, like the esophagus; a huge cavity with a "magma pool", which was the stomach; below them were piled up with twists and turns of small and large intestines. Next to the stomach, there was a huge rock, which looked like a liver from its shape and position. They had accidentally entered the body of a giant!

The remaining few people were a little surprised, but after looking at it carefully, they had to admit this conclusion.

Then here - Shizi ignored the danger and lay on the edge of the platform, looking down. With the stone pillar beside her as the center, there were layers of neatly arranged platforms below them, like shelves in a warehouse. "Is this the spine?"

Hong Xia also moved to the edge of the platform and looked up into the darkness. She couldn't see anything. How could she get up there?

"Mr. Wu, can we make a hot air balloon?" Xi Duo suggested, "Before, the balloon would be destroyed in the stomach, but it should be fine here, right?"

Shizi observed it for a while and shook his head again: "That thing is too big. We can't make it now, and there is too little space here. And if something unexpected happens on the balloon, I won't be able to respond immediately while sitting in the basket."

"Hongxia, Shizi, come back quickly." Liang suddenly warned, "Something is coming."

Everyone had just recovered and had no strength to fight. The two hurried back to the stone wall, Hongxia turned off the light, and they were in darkness again. Soon, not only Liang, but others also heard the sound of something approaching. That thing was getting closer and closer. Before turning off the light, it was at the edge of vision, but now it seemed to be within reach! Shizi could hear its movement, moving left and right, always circling around. Her heart was beating wildly, and she dared not breathe. Someone grabbed her left hand, and the grip became tighter and tighter. She felt that the owner of the hand was also trembling slightly.

I can't see at all, and I don't know what's in front of me. The unknown is the biggest fear.

However, Shizi began to find that his vision was getting brighter little by little. Unlike the effect of Hongxia turning on the light, Shizi felt like he had drunk a night vision potion. Although there was no light, he could see everything clearly. But at this moment, Shizi would rather not see anything:

"Grapevine", this was Shizi's first impression of the thing. She thought so because it really looked like a piece of grapevine flying in the air, but if you look closely, you will find that the vine is a section of the spine, the huge leaves are flat fleshy wings, and the "grapes" are bunches of grape-shaped alveoli... Shizi didn't want to think about why it could fly in the air, but she didn't feel disgusted. None of the monsters they had seen were normal, and they had long been numb to this indescribable appearance.

But most importantly, it was too close. It was so close that she could count the number of segments on its body, and its wings were flapping up and down. When it was closest, it almost hit Shizi's face. She leaned back desperately and saw the blood on the wings. She glanced at the person who was holding her. It was Kita. Kita also stared at it closely, and her other hand covered her mouth tightly to control herself from making any sound.

This kind of monster was not worth mentioning in their heyday, but now it is enough to throw all of them into the abyss of darkness.

It kept swaying from side to side, and the five people were cautious and did not move. After an unknown amount of time, the "vine" finally swayed away.

Shizi let out a long breath and instantly relaxed. Only then did she notice the cold sweat on her back.

"Can you see it?" Hong Xia asked others in a low voice.

The others responded quietly. It seemed that everyone had gained night vision. As for the source of this ability, several people searched but to no avail. There was only an additional "night vision" in the [Additional] column of the panel.

"Don't worry about it for now, eat something. I don't have the strength to even beat that thing."

"I can't cook now. The best I can do is turn some candy into something." Shizi looked around and found that the backpacks they had carried at the beginning had flown away to who knows where. The dry food and drinking water were all in them.

Hong Xia dug into her pocket and pulled out a few packs of compressed biscuits: "I hid something beforehand to prepare for this kind of situation."

Kita took it with tears of gratitude: "How can we live without Ichichi-senpai..."

Relying on this little bit of stored food and the pure water that Yili worked hard to produce, everyone gradually recovered their abilities.

"I think we can hang under that thing and be taken up by it!" Kita came up with a dangerous idea while eating!

Hongxia was stunned for a moment. "(Is this a joke?)" Kita would occasionally say something ridiculous. But she saw Shizi thinking seriously again.

"We'll lure it over later and try to tie a stone that's almost as heavy as us to it. If it can hold on, we'll go up." Shizi proposed a dangerous idea!

"..." Hong Xia is the drummer of the band. She needs to sit in the back row of the band, looking down on everyone's every move, taking care of the socially anxious and autistic ones, watching over the shameless ones, and restraining the cheerful and jumpy ones, becoming a steady and trustworthy captain.

"I have no objection." Liang's voice was calm.

"...Okay." Hong Xia suddenly felt tired. No matter how steady a person is at making complaints, there will come a day when he has nothing to say.

"Where is Yili?" Hongxia looked at the only person who hadn't spoken.

"(It's useless, Hongxia, Ichiri will never refuse.)" Shizi said to himself sadly in his heart, "(A social phobia will never raise objections when everyone else has agreed to something.)"

"I, I, I, I can do anything..." Ichiri responded with a broken expression.

Shizi felt guilty. "(Go back and make it up to her.)"

"Then, let's lure it back now?" Hong Xia was about to release the light.

Liang grabbed her at once, revealing a serious expression: "Wait! I'm still so scared after what happened just now that I can't move!"

"Why are you so proud?" Hongxia remembered that Liang has always been the type who can't ride a roller coaster.

"That's great, let's take a break."

After enough rest, Hongxia shone again, and "Grapevine" flew back quickly.

"Cool." Shizi threw out a piece of iron chain. Under the pull of the transformation sound wave, the iron chain and the boulder it was tied to were entangled on the spine of the "grapevine". It immediately fell down, and quickly stabilized its body, rolling up and down, but it could not get rid of the burden on its body. Shizi saw that it was feasible, and followed the same method to make a similar iron chain, replacing the original boulder with an iron cage that could support five people. The iron chain flew towards the monster. The original boulder had disappeared, but a new burden was added. The monster struggled to fly upwards, taking everyone in the iron cage with it.

"Be careful!" Hong Xia shouted as the cage was lifted into the air. The violent shaking almost caused everyone to fall. This was not the Ferris wheel in the amusement park!

The six sides of the cage were stuffed with sponges. Liang's bass sounded, and the impact of the violent shaking was finally reduced. "Liang... drag the other end of the chain over here..." Shizi suppressed his nausea and took the iron chain that was thrown before, and locked it to the railing. In this way, the monster should not be able to throw them down. "Grapevine" put on the overly heavy necklace and flew to a high place.

Shizi held onto the railing and tried to look outside, but there was only an unchanging stone wall outside. She didn't dare to look down, but when she looked up, she saw that the cave ceiling that was originally hidden in the darkness was already within reach!

"It's going to hit me!" She screamed. Before anyone could react, the violent collision knocked everyone down again.

Hongxia began to feel weightless. The monster was swooping down with them! It was falling in one direction at a faster speed than before. The sticky blood fell on Hongxia's hand. The "vine" was still struggling, and it was dizzy and crashed into an area that was still pitch black in the night vision!

"(That's it!)" Hong Xia recognized that area. It was the liver! The stomach of the giant had that kind of weirdness. If it got to the liver, it would be bad! But it was too late. The monster's head (where was the head?) bumped into it!

With a loud bang, a cloud of smoke and dust exploded on the liver. Among them, five people struggled to crawl out. The iron cage had been twisted and deformed by the impact, and the "grapevine" turned into ashes.

ps: Please comment and recommend~qwq

Chapter 12 From the Liver…

The five of them stood on the ground again. Although the spine was a little higher than before, they were still a long way from escaping. The liver under their feet had an ominous atmosphere at first glance, and they always felt that they could not stay there for long.